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The Sheltering Sky

The Sheltering Sky more books like this

by Paul Bowles

Tells the story of an American couple's fated attempt to regenerate their strange and troubled marriage as they journey through North Africa. The book is a portrayal of a man's physical and mental disintegration and is written by the author of "Midnight Mass".

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The Spider's House

The Spider's House more books like this

by Paul Bowles

In 1954, Moroccan resistance to French rule is reaching boiling point, and only four English-speaking visitors are left at a hotel in the medieval city of Fez. To Amar, a young Moslem, they are enticing, and as the rebellion grows he believes he is helped by knowing the inner feelings of others.

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Without Stopping: An Autobiography

Without Stopping: An Autobiography more books like this

by Paul Bowles

This autobiographical work by Paul Bowles contains some of the qualities of his best fiction-writing: lyrical language, concise observation, and a glimpse of the mystery at the heart of things. The book is so unrevealing about the personal details of his life that Jane Bowles jokingly called it "Without Telling," but it does provide a fascinating ...

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Up above the world

Up above the world more books like this

by Paul Bowles

Dr Slade and his wife are on holiday in Latin America when they meet Grove, a charming and strikingly good-looking young man, and his beautiful mistress. An apparently chance encounter, it opens the door to an atmosphere shivering with nastiness.

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The Stories of Paul Bowles

The Stories of Paul Bowles more books like this

by Paul Bowles

An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Tobias Wolff. From "The Delicate Prey" to "Too Far from Home, " this definitive collection celebrates Bowles' masterful artistry in short fiction.

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For Bread Alone

For Bread Alone more books like this

by Mohamed Choukri, Paul Bowles

Driven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of Mohamed's siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. On moving to another province, Mohamed learns how to charm and steal, and discovers the joys of ...

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Collected Stories, 1939-1976

Collected Stories, 1939-1976 more books like this

by Paul Bowles, Gore Vidal (Introduction by)

The publication by Black Sparrow in 1979 of Paul Bowles' Collected Stories sparked the rediscovery of Bowles' works that has brought world renown to the American expatriate writer, for decades resident in Tangier, Morocco. Gore Vidal's Introduction to this large collection remarks "His stories are among the best ever written by an American".

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Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles

Yesterday's Perfume: An Intimate Memoir of Paul Bowles more books like this

by Cherie Nutting, Paul Bowles

Cherie Nutting recalls her friendship with novelist Paul Bowles in this memoir, which covers his last 10 years. Her text is accompanied by a selection of transcribed conversations, photographs, and fragments of Bowles's unpublished writings. Throughout, the expatriate circle of Morocco is vividly portrayed.

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A hundred camels in the courtyard

A hundred camels in the courtyard more books like this

by Paul Bowles

Author reads his celebrated collection of connected kif stories, A Hundred Camels in the Courtyard. Printed insert with author's introductory essay for this production and reading.

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A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories

A Distant Episode: The Selected Stories more books like this

by Paul Bowles

A compilation of Bowles's best short fiction, by the author himself. An American cult figure, Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman Mailer, Allen Ginsberg, Truman Capote, William S. Burroughs, Gore Vidal, and Jay McInerney.

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Let It Come Down more books like this

by Paul Bowles

"Let it Come Down" tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers.

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Literary Trips: Following in the Footsteps of Fame more books like this

by Victoria Brooks (Editor), Paul Bowles (Foreword by), Bob Shacochis (Introduction by)

"The excitement of finding something strange consists precisely in noting its strangeness," says Paul Bowles in the foreword. In his final bit of writing before his death, Bowles hit on the driving force that impels the best travel writers: the urge to tell someone about their trips. In this book, they find the opportunity, bringing readers along ...

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Delicate Prey: And Other Stories more books like this

by Paul Bowles

Exemplary storles that reveal the blzarre, the dlsturblng, the perllous, and the wlse ln other clvlllzatlons -- from one of Amerlca's most lmportant wrlters of the twentleth century.

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The Delicate Prey more books like this

by Paul Bowles

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Points in Time: Tales from Morocco

by Paul Bowles

In this intense and brilliant book Bowles focuses on Morocco, condensing expreience, emotion, and the whole history of a people into a series of short, insightful vignettes. He distills for us the very essence of Moroccan culture. With extraordinary immediacy, he takes the reader on a journey through the Moroccan centuries, pausing at points along ...

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The Boy Who Set the Fire more books like this

by Mohammed Mrabet, Paul Bowles (Translator)

Much of Mrabet's work has been translated by his friend and fellow resident of Tangiers, the noted writer Paul Bowles.

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Midnight Mass more books like this

by Paul Bowles

Thirteen stories written in the five years between 1976 and 1981, "Midnight Mass" picks up where Bowles' Collected Stories left off, and includes the wonderful novella-length "Here to Learn", concerning a young Moroccan woman 'adopted' by various affluent Europeans.

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Claudio Bravo Paintings and Drawings: Drawings and Paintings (1964/2004) more books like this

by Paul Bowles, Francisco Calvo Serraller, Edward J Sullivan

Claudio Bravo is one of the world's greatest hyperrealist painters, but such a label is too simple and insufficient for his dramatic, enigmatic work. He is known for his use of color, which seems to become more extravagant with the passage of time, and the increasingly mysterious arrangement of objects in his photo-perfect still lifes.Arranged in ...

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Too Far from Home: The Selected Writings of Paul Bowles more books like this

by Paul Bowles

This generous collection includes four novels, including THE SHELTERING SKY, as well as the title novella and 12 stories.

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by Paul Bowles

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Too far from home more books like this

by Paul Bowles

This generous collection includes four novels, including THE SHELTERING SKY, as well as the title novella and 12 stories.

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In Touch more books like this

by Paul Bowles

Four hundred letters from the 1930s to the 1960s detail Bowles's intense responses to the places he has lived, from Manhattan to the Sahara, as well as his relationships with such artists as Gertrude Stein, Aaron Copland, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and William S. Burroughs.

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In Touch: The Letters of Paul Bowles more books like this

by Paul Bowles, Jeffrey Miller (Editor)

Four hundred letters from the 1930s to the 1960s detail Bowles's intense responses to the places he has lived, from Manhattan to the Sahara, as well as his relationships with such artists as Gertrude Stein, Aaron Copland, Tennessee Williams, Truman Capote, and William S. Burroughs.

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Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: Scenes from the Non-Christian World more books like this

by Paul Bowles, Edmund White (Introduction by)

"Their Heads are Green and their Hands are Blue" is an engaging collection of eight travel essays. Except for one essay on Central America, all of these pieces are concerned with locations in the Hindu, Buddhist, or Islamic worlds. A superb and observant traveler, Paul Bowles was a born wanderer who found pleasure in the inaccessible and who ...

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Days: Tangier Journal: 1987-1989 more books like this

by Paul Bowles

Between 1987 and 1989, Paul Bowles, at the suggestion of a friend, kept a journal to record the daily events of his life. What emerges is more than just a record of the meals, conversations, and health concerns of the author of The Sheltering Sky , but a fascinating look at an artist at work in a new medium. Characterized by a refreshinng ...

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